# The Beatles were overrated

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> I think it’s the other way around - you can’t look at the four of them individually, sum them up, and say, “therefore, the Beatles really weren’t all that great.” That argument won’t fly.
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> Bands are collaborations of musicians, and people working with each other, bouncing ideas off one another, are usually a lot better than the same people would be working by themselves.
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> It’s true even with bands with dominant frontmen: take The Police, versus Sting as a solo artist. Whatever Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland contributed (and I’m not denigrating them here; I just don’t know enough about music to understand, let alone evaluate, their contribution), they made Sting as frontman of The Police a hell of a lot better than Sting ever was by himself.

Wait, what? Stings first two solo albums were miles better thsn anything The Police did. He didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a single genre.

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